David Petraeus, a retired army general and former director of the CIA, speaks to CNBC's Hadley Gamble about Europe's energy crisis and the Russia-Ukraine war.
Not a bad interview except for where the interviewer slipped into a political hack and started attacking Biden's mental acuity. Kudos to the general for not playing cheap politics and shame to the reporter.
She ruined an otherwise solid interview by lending her legitimacy to absurd partisan attacks. It’s extremely unprofessional journalism to adopt as serious insinuations for which no evidence exists other than being strategically deployed by rivals to exploit crude stereotypes and prejudices. Old people are not senile. Gay people are not pedophiles. Women are not sexual harlots. Liberals are not snowflake socialists. It’s incredible that anyone takes as serious what Republicans say.
I am truly impressed with the intelligence and insights of U.S. generals. As a Canadian I feel lucky to have you as a neighbour. I may not always agree with their foreign policy, but I recognise the restraint shown by this superpower.
such an EXTRAORDINARY expose of the many aspects of the very complicated, but so well "organized" web of synchronization by all "allied" parties involved , on all fronts, resulting in Ukraine being able to push back one of the "so called" best military might on our planet ! BRAVO "ladies & gentlemen" ! et MERCI !
What is there not to admire from an American who is fully aware of what is going on in the world. You are the man Patreus - total respect from an Irish European.
He is just supporting propagandas from his gov't nothing more. It doesn't make sense thinking Ukraine might defeat Russia whatsoever. When it goes to fully war we will understand Russia's capabilities. Insinuating over the health of Putin has been Western media propagandas since before the operation so nothing new to admire.
I fully agree! Watching such a quality senior officer as him Mr. George Friedman’s words are making more a more sense. He said, China might have the same number of ships in its navy, but it will never have the same quality admirals as we do!
@@antoniolima1068 you sound like the iraqis before desert storm the first time. sadam had the biggest army in the middle east . "battle hardened" . see how that worked out,.
General Petraeus' closing comment - "We have to get through this winter". 'Western-ingenuity' must formulate and deliver a 'Berlin Airlift' style response.
@@MichaelBrown-kk6ckThanks for the feedback. If that's what works for her - so be it. I'd like to think that journalistic efforts can be conducted as an unbiased representation of reality, without giving up one's right to express one's principles via the vote, thus helping influence our country's direction. I haven't noticed other journalists saying they give up their right to vote, just to function in their careers.
@@williamrapp9823 in the UK (where I am) it’s definitely a thing some journalists, army officers, civil servants and judges choose to do. It’s not required here, obviously, but certain types of public servant here are required to remain entirely neutral in public. My Dad is a retired judge, and chose to keep voting once he became one, but he was obligated to not disclose his political leanings to anyone outside family, and to stop giving any monetary support to any political party or organisation. I get why. It definitely helps maintain the separation of powers when you know that certain key powerful groups are a-political.
@@celticcheetah6371 That's quite interesting. My youngest brother is a "semi-retired" juvenile court judge, and he's far from apolitical, although I would prefer that he were. We avoid talking politics/religion when possible, since our family has a mix across the preference spectrum. We all have our practiced customs - so be it. Family ties are important to us, so discretion is the order of the day.
Although the silly shit he sometimes gets in. That man is incredible and everyones got an opinion of him. Without knowing any of his never ending accomplishments. And maybe if you had something to actually say. Other than some tabloids that you must be reading. You might actually have a opinion.
@@drewphillips7021 You are right. I don't follow media personalities and I know little about Musk...I'm going to keep it that way. I will never mock any public figure again. Media is the truth. Just kidding of course.
This is fairly the main stream position relative to the event in the US. In my assignments, I always served as an apolitical servant. Key point: The president is the administration. I think that despite all the criticism, the administration has handled the situation well. Particularly, it has shown a lot of restrain. Let's hope this is wrapped up ASAP.
Guy has a hard on for the proxy war he's fighting. He doesn't care about Ukrainians. Musk called for another referendum with full US oversight. Putin is just going to get more desperate, ×5 the destruction.
Without a doubt the most brilliant general superb intellect and a genius he definitely should be a president or a defense secretary in an administration.
Dude was on track to run for President with Rupert Murdoch paving the way for him. But he got busted shagging his biographer. That’s life in America. Seems laughable now after Trump.
as viewers from the sidelines in other parts of the world - it amazes us that a country such as the USA comes up with such twits as presidents that people even vote for ...when there are surely intelligent and successful people that could stand and win..
The disgraced general, David Petraeus, betrayed his country when he lied to Congress. His later negligent dalliances, during which he leaked some intimate details concerning our national security, pale in comparison. He violated his sworn duty to obey civilian authority. He is untrustworthy, yet for-profit media finds that those tarnished baubles on his uniform can sell ads, so here we are. He will continue to be shoved in our faces, reminding us that those medals could carry his country's honor and respect only if they were worn by someone else.
As a pro-EU german having been critical about US imperialism and selfishness in the past and especially under Trump, this is the kind of leadership displayed here I can accept and endorse and feeling happy to be a part of this alliance, therefore expecting my german gov't to contribute its share properly.
Are you mad. This guy is a joke. He utterly failed in his missions in Irag and in Afghanistan. He represents everything that is wrong with the US military. I'm delighted, as a european, that the US has generals as incompetent and corrupt as this guy. It could lead hopefully to a weakening of the US globally which is a very positive outcome for the rest of the world.
@@wbafc1231 Petraeus is saying correct things. This situation is different, probably the aforementioned wars should have not even been started by the US. The woman askes really weird questions and announces she will go to Russia, she is probably the mad one here. Well...Canada, what to say, perhaps the enforced gender politics and islam welcoming immigration policy has driven her mad.
@@wojteks4712 thank you and this is true, german politics is too inwards focussed. Germany certainly didn't always play a glorious role and german collective decision making can be quite erratic. However, fundamentally, I believe the majority understands this conflict is about core fundamental values we commonly agree upon in the west, and we do not question the strategic and military leadership of the US given that it remains nuanced and cautious when it comes to defending those values, as both our lifestyles in america and europe are quite similar and interlinked and so we need to stick together in real crisis.
A man respected by everyone I know who've met him. Alexander the Great said "It is not titles who honour men, but men who honour titles.", Petraeus is the reason we respect the title of General and commander. Even as a European who usually disdain all of the US's military-industrious complex and culture, I highly respect men such as he.
l have great appreciation for General Petraeus. Not only was he a General, and CIA Director, he was also NATO COMMANDER . So this man KNOWS what he is talking about. I saw an interview with him about 4 months ago and he said the entire Russian military could be inside the Ukraine and he did not think they could win. Great respect for his opinion,
@@dalemallette8111 Oh you are a democrats. it was the democrats that were trying to make him look bad over total nonsense. you believer all the democrats do? how about biden and harris? damn
Petraeus is full of BS, he is part of the globalist BBB team after huge N exchange, they have built cities under the US for this moment he has his exit plan when the shtf what have you got! Do your due diligence and connect the dots or not! I know what I know what do you really know.
One Russian tactical nuke on Ukraine and it's all finished. Just like Hiroshima in ww2. All these battle tactics of Ukraine will be smoked by even a low yield nuke on them. 🤣
US escalated this war and now we are on the brink of total nuclear war on a global scale. US media is acting as if US had no part in this. Both US and Russia needs to settle down and talk. They need to pressure Ukraine to accept peace deal.
I really respect his commitment to not comment on domestic politics especially with him being someone who has occupied position of necessary apoliticalism.
Is that why Obama pulled him out of his job in Irak just when things got better there? After him being out of control things got worse and ISIS grew substantially.
Just like the retired Lt general and former commander of US who were also used to support their country's propagandas who all have been interviewed within past 24hrs!! Isn't that strange!?
This guy makes sense he lied more times than Joe Biden there was more red flags in his speech any blind person could see if they were listening and they cared do not let these people lie to you it is never a good idea for a nuclear war it Putin uses nuclear war this guy said if he uses nuclear weapons on the battlefield it won't make a difference b***s**** then NATO uses nuclear weapons and the United States uses nuclear weapons Russia's got 6,000 nuclear weapons each one of them capable of blowing up Chicago Los Angeles Washington DC and we cannot stop them once a nuclear war starts we cannot stop it the only way we can stop this war is by letting Ukraine and Rush negotiate and stop the war now we need to vote these corrupt officials that are in office today out they are dangerous it is not about Democrats or Republicans anymore I am not a republican I am not a Democrat I'm an American with common sense and you should be too use your common sense man no nuclear war is winnable
@@heimkon7236 yes you are so right this guy is a talking head for the government that is in charge right now that wants to try to dethrone Putin all they're going to do is start a nuclear war and no one can survive that
"neither do I, I don't vote, Im a journalist" huh? why would being a journalist preclude you from voting? I can understand not publicly announcing your political affiliation as a journalist, but surely you SHOULD vote since your job is to know whats going on? Who would be a more informed voter than a non-partisan journalist?
Unfortunately the American two party system, with its current tribalism, basically means that voting means picking a ‘side,’ which is very unhealthy for democracy
I totally enjoy listening to this man He is intelligent and very good at analytical evaluation of the geopolitical events currently occurring in the world
No. He's an American traitor and belongs behind bars. If he was so smart he wouldn't have leaked classified documents to his mistress while serving in a top military (ie unelected) position. Gross. 🤢
US escalated this war and now we are on the brink of total nuclear war on a global scale. US media is acting as if US had no part in this. Both US and Russia needs to settle down and talk. They need to pressure Ukraine to accept peace deal.
Well real napster, I see you are well down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole. Do you also get your right wing propaganda from Tuckums? You know the guy who traveled to Hungary to do commercials praising the far right/ fascist leaning dictator?
If he was telling you the truth he would tell you that Ukraine and Russia needs to negotiate to end this war so we do not even come close to a nuclear war that no one will survive including our planet
It will end only when Washington says so, this is a proxy war between the US and Russia. The Ukraine is merely a geopolitical pawn. This has already being stated by the white house
Hes the former director of the CIA. According to Pompeo their motto is "We lie, We cheat, We steal." how can you trust anything coming out of the mouth of this man... To do the job he did, you have to not care about morality, how otherwise could you possible be a good leader of such an organization... In my opinion, these are the people with no moral values at all, or at the minimum he can easily put principles and moral values aside so he can do his job which is to lie cheat, steal and kill... That's all the CIA does.... If you would care to listen to both sides you would easily see he's lying right now... But people don't do this, they will only listen to one side and then believe the understand what's going on.. That's not how the world works, if you want to understand anything, you always listen to both sides, Westerners don't seem to get this logic... I can't really blame you, they banned the other side, to prefend people from listening to Russia.. It's much easier to indoctrinate people, when you don't give them the chance to listen to other point of views... You see how brainwashing and manipulating works, it's very easy... If you truly had freedom of press, you would be able to listen to Russian media, but you don't have that freedom...
This government today is going to lead us into a nuclear war Ukraine and Russia are already tried to negotiate once and this evil government that's in charge today would not let them if we do not vote this evil government out of office we will have a nuclear war and no one will survive think about it
Nothing we have done overseas, in Iraq or Afghanistan, was successful. One might say that our soldiers won the battles, and the generals lost the wars.
So because one is in the military or a journalist, they should not vote?? What in the world are they talking about? Voting is a duty and a privilege of citizenship.
I can kind of understand the Generals reason ... his job is to protect no matter who's in office .... but the journalist who is not voting is full of shit as to her reason for not voting .... but it is her right to vote or not to vote .... thats what freedom is all about.
what an intelligent interview the interviewer focused and on point asking relevant and salient questions that showed her understanding of true events. 👏👏 General Patreus's ability and understanding is without question. Fabulous interview 😎
@@DutchmanAmsterdam I’m sure that if you demonstrate your own journalistic skills to us all we’ll completely agree how much of a better job you would have done. Let me know when your own interview goes on-line.
@@srp01983 No, he's right. A couple tagents she goes on about the president and Elon Musk are the kind of garbage one might need in a clips reel when trying to get a job at Fox. Silly.
One of the few, next to Hodges, who believed in Ukraine’s changes from the beginning. Based on clear analytical and critical thinking. I believe both have a deep sense of what an army and its nation needs in order to be successful on the battlefield.
Strategic war action with rapid changes of strategy dependent on in the field movements. Coordination chaos is happening in Ukraine and it works for Ukranian arrmy.
I never appreciated how valuable patriotism is when defending one's country. Ukrainians have a clear moral purpose. If Europe can get through the winter Russia is lost. We need to get fuel to Europe.
@alex And as usual, US did NOT invaded Ukraine but russia did. His words about putin is straight to the point: The guy is destroying what he pretend to defend: federation of russia. Russia is the last "empire" of past centuries with most of the 140 millions citizens being NOT russian people but individual countries with undisputed borders.
General , long time ago your wonderful mother told you : No self respecting chicken would wanna be like you “. Today, every self respecting chicken wishes it was you. You are a living legend, General !!!!!
The dude failed in Afghanistan and at the CIA. The most succesfull thing he ever done was screwing another man’s wife. I know a carpenter that accomplished more than this clown.
Ha. Ha. Ha. Unless by "integrity" you mean *leaking highly classified docs* and by "fighting off media bias" you mean *to his journalist mistress that ended his military career*
Elon Musk is better at being a Technocrat than a Politician. There's a saying that goes." If you're not in the thick it. Don't advise those who are on how to proceed. Just stay in your Lane".
Petraeus is so believable and so reassuring ... at least for me. Elon Musk needs to stick to what he knows, technology, and stop meddling in Ukrainian military strategies. Elon is so full of himself, frankly I'm beginning to question his motives and his psyche. Really, who does he think he is and what is his purpose? He has no business mucking around in this situation! Is he aware that Russia attacked the peaceful, sovereign country of Ukraine? Why are all his propositions favorable to Russia? Why didn't he recommend to Putin to get the h'll out of Ukraine and give back all Ukrainian territory including Crimea? 🤔 As an after thought, I hope Biden is talking to Petraeus!
Elon is real we need talks not war,those polls spoke volumes,we are tired of western hypocrisy,Ukrainian gov harassing&killing its Russia speaking people in the eastern parts threatening Russia with NATO ambitions that could destroy Russia, this is Biden's work to weaken Russia,feed American war machine Lockheed's &cover up all his corruption at the expense of the ukranian lives! its absurd
This generals need to explain why Russia has avoided the scorched earth policy like he practiced in Iraq. Why hasn't the capital been targeted with Russias thousands of short and medium range missiles? Why has critical infrastructure been left in tact? The answer is simple this isn't a full scale declaration of war... yet.
He want the people. That's why he made the votes. Stalin didn't say this but it's commonly phrased: What matter is the vote and not the people. Stalin needed the people but not their opinions.
"Glory to America"? If only you know the sick history of your corrupt country! You have no idea what is about to happen in this world, and specific to your "glorious America".
Utmost respect to all American military leaders. It's evident that these are not the usual bonehead russian military leaders. American military leaders are the real thing. The prestige, repect, honor, and experience they exhibit is 2nd to none. American prestige. This is it.
They are the reason we have this mess in Ukraine. Ukraine could have been easily brought into the West orbit without constant talk of expanding NATO. Way more money would have been left to spend on domestic problems in the US and many more Ukrainians would be alive today. This war was totally avoidable if it was not because of American adventurism which at the end enriches the arms industry in the US.
US escalated this war and now we are on the brink of total nuclear war on a global scale. US media is acting as if US had no part in this. Both US and Russia needs to settle down and talk. They need to pressure Ukraine to accept peace deal.
@@jvm-tv Putin expressed it explicitly that the collapse of SU was the greatest disaster, he would mess with internal Ukrainian affairs anyway. The citizens of that country have already lived under Russian government and majority of them opposed falling under Russian boot again. They would join EU sooner or later anyway and only NATO membership would guarantee their safety - Putin broke literally every treaty with Ukraine. Although thousands have died already and more will die, in longer perspective this war will only strenghten Ukrainian people. Maybe it was needed to make them completely disillusioned about their fate when their country would be again in a sphere or Russian influence. And this war is a warning sign for the West (signalled plenty of times by the Baltic countries) that it needs to be united against countries which despise the very values the western world is built on.
Hyper sonic is the idea that the missile is faster than the radar is equal for both sides since yourself is blind to find the target. You need to verify the target.
come on CNBC, kinda disrespectful interview a man of his stature in a loud open hallway? you can't afford a studio/conference room? the background noise is very distracting
Petraeus is one of, if not the, brightest military minds of his generation. He spoke expertly and didn’t take the bait. And what is up with this reporter? She wouldn’t stop name dropping the people she and questioning Biden‘s mental acuity? Sure, he’s getting old and his prone to gaffes, he has ALWAYS been! But what has he done exactly that’s interfered with the running of the country? Not remembering that a member of Congress died months ago? There’s 535 of them! Did she say the same thing when Trump was talking about the Civil War and how the union was taking their “airports” ? (airports in 1865!)
A very thoughtful interview by an intelligent non sensationalist journalist, in the old sense of the word. more like this, and I might even start watching cable again. But this is a rarity. Since it is so rare, it should be watched and celebrated, IMHO.
So you aren’t impressed by a four star general. You’re amazed at interviewing??? Your liberal and yet you don’t vote?? This is how USA military leadership leads. Intelligent educated leadership. He wouldn’t leave any soldier on battlefield unlike his Russian counterparts. You should be proud of our men and women in the services. That’s why they call it the service or they served. It’s more than just voting which you don’t. Respect the flag and those who protect it and you. Wow great interviewer.
This is one of the amazing personalities I would consider President of the US one day, without knowing what he stands for in economy, social topics, ...etc.
Wow. Hadley Gamble 🏆Great interview. Not overly aggressive, but asking difficult questions. I really have the impression that you are an honest journalist. Your interview(s) are refreshingly balanced and show that your agenda is discovering the truth rather than playing for a political team. Good retort 18:00 after difficult questions about Biden: "i don't vote either, I'm a journalist". I think of myself as liberal, but I think the truth is much more important than political teams. I hope you'll be winning awards
Asking a general to assess the mental acuity of a president isn't the hallmarks of a "great interview". Rather, it's tabloid and totally meaningless. Petraeus handled it very well, though
One doubts if not voting by the more intelligent and informed members of society is really a very good idea. Those tens of thousands of votes do make a difference. Of course, they should keep their voting out of their professional work. But surely they can register as independents and vote along with everyone else.
👍🇺🇲♥️🇺🇦💛💙🔱 Gen. Petraeus is right on the point! Thank you for this analysis and Glory to Ukraine! Ukraine needs the artillery it gets times the factor of 5 to ten, and the contemporary tanks and planes would be a huge boost to the military effort, please consider. Ukraine is fighting the hot part of the current world war on behalf of us all in the free democratic world, on behalf of NATO: Ukraine must be expedited toward NATO membership as Finland and Sweden are.
@@stc3145 He's just a dumb bot who missed his update. Now Putin has more domestic problems than any other nation. The conscript is hurting them hard. The smart blood is leaving the country.
Next thing we should allow Cuba to install nukes on its soil; that would be democratic, no? It seems to me that hypocrisy ooses out of every pore of your skin.
Kudos to The General for putting up with this unprofessional interviewer. She seemed more interested in her own accomplishments and fox like questions than the subject at hand.
Hopefully people will see that the U.S top brass is very professional, well-trained and educated. The problem is that there are a lot of powerful Warhawks in government who make the decisions to send them to unpopular wars, which end up giving the entire U.S military a bad wrap.
@@annarock8966.. Yes,.both well educated and trained!.. I have a belief of what a general have to be,.. When seeing my older captains beeing for sure well-trained as well!..
Petraeus brainchild. In violation of International Law and the UN Charter. CIA title 50 regime change, proxy war in the Syrian civil war. (CIA Operation Timber Sycamore 2012-2017) .. CIA coups removing democratically elected leaders/governments around the world. Iran (1953) Guatemala (1954) Congo (1960) Dominican Republic (1961) S Vietnam (1963) Brazil (1964) Chile (1973)...Pompeo’s CIA formulates plans to abduct and murder Julian Assange as reported by Michael Isikoff using 30 independent Intel sources.
@@lisettegarcia.. The "free" press have "free" journalists who can make any story "true".. I'm one of those who does not believe in every aspect of "a worked out story" .. We can see this as the Ukrainian battle goes,.. Free press are telling us every day, - information which appears to come from western intelligence.. Why and when will they tell us exactly what they have in plans.. Not so classified plans that we can leak,. -some thoughts leaked to the press, which might be the opposite of what they really think of is the way of doing..?
I was in the military in a foreign country before moving to the US, and I can see why the US holds superiority in many aspects such as the military. Obviously, things are run differently in other countries, but one thing that strikes me in the US (with the exception of the years when trump was in office) is how independent, intelligent, capable, well-informed, savvy, well-spoken, and most importantly apolitical high ranking men and women that serve with integrity (again, with the exception of the yes-men associated with trump).
Yeah, so much integrity that Petraeus is taking this interview in civilian clothing because he ended his military career by leaking classified docs to his journalist mistress.
General Petraeus has the potential to be Eisenhower of our times. I wish he and others entered politics and ran for office. Both parties are starving for capable intellectuals to lead our nation.
Though I can see your point, I think people like him can better serve as an educator. He has a lot to teach our young people. But if he were to serve in our government, I think he would do our country well in our state department as a foreign service agent.
Please don't compare this guy to President Eisenhower, ever again. Eisenhower gave one of the most consequential and critical speeches about the United States at the end of his presidency. He conducted major campaigns during WWII. He was the real deal and a true patriot. Petraeus doesn't have that kind of backbone. Many soldiers who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan don't have a positive view of this guy at all. Not to mention that the U.S. military failed in Iraq and Afghanistan, because after two decades those two nations are failed states.
@@paulheydarian1281 So you took an opinion poll of U.S. troops and popularity of generals? There were veterans worshiping General Mattis until he turned on Trump’s stupidity and angered MAGA veterans. As for Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. never lost a single operation on the battlefield. What U.S. didn’t have is serious interest in nation building in either country which takes decades.
@@htunlin2000 He has a PhD from Princeton so it does make him exceptionally smart. As for love affairs, smart people are not immune to that, unless you’re some autistic Hentai nerd…
It is very re-assuring that I could listen to this guy for 5 minutes and understand that he is a masterfully trained. He has a way of calmly speaking and explaining simply, that only some one with a ironclad understanding could speak
You are as ignorant as they come. Ukraine is getting annihilated. Not because I favor that outcome, but simply because if you did any digging away from brain washing media, you'd see those facts for yourself.
In Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan the Russians were supplying our opponents with huge quantities of arms and information. It is in no position to complain about Western assistance to Ukraine.
As a Brit, from the "old country" it always amazes me that in a country with a third of a billion people, more nobel prizes than most of the world put-together, you end with Trump, Biden, Ford, Nixon to name but-a-few etc etc... Why not these people? I don't agree with everything he says - but then must I? At least he is cogent, articulate, educated, experienced, pragmatic and focused. He makes Biden look very very poor meat indeed...
because everyone can vote. i think voting age should be 35 . and have to pass a test. there is no reason for no minds to be voting particularly 18 yr olds.
Joe Biden was the youngest U.S. senator ever elected at age 30. He served in the senate for 36 years. He is an expert on foreign and domestic policy. His leadership in the Ukraine war has been superb. Regardless of your politics, his domestic accomplishments in less than two years has rarely been matched. Trump talked about an infrastructure bill for 4 years, one that was decades overdue. Biden delivered one and he did it with a 50/50 senate. America is America, in part, because we have a civilian run government. Eisenhower was a rare exception. Great generals and great CEOs don’t tend to be very good political leaders. It’s a different skill set (yes, of course there are some similarities).
because our political system revolves around money raising, and who can withstand the withering media scrutiny. As a result, only those with huge egos (and arguably less brain matter) get selected. Most rational people would never subject themselves and their families to the horrors of running for office.
#1 determining factor of success in a election is name recognition. The politicians aren't the best at policy and policy /tactic experts aren't good politicians.
No he just did support the propagandas of his country. For the past 24hrs this channel has spoken to the retired Lt general, former commander of US,and him former director of CIA!! Isn't that strange!?
This ex General totally dismissed the option of a referendum - did not even entertain the idea with a United Nations arbiter. Surely if the majority of the population residing in those affected areas decide which way they want their future to go - that is what matters most. But no - the USA will not consider this option which could put a sudden stop to this madness. It appears that the Ukraine and the USA do not want to entertain this option and this in itself should ring alarm bells for those with a balanced view.
A good question to ask him would've been how much investment do you have in the great Military Industrial Complex!!!! Would've def been an interesting and eye opening question to ask!
